Example sentences of "be [verb] off after the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remains of the Polish K4 are carried off after the collision . |
| 2 | Naturally it had to be washed off after the show before outdoor clothes were put on . |
| 3 | In a controversial aspect of the data collection , the subjects were allowed to think that the tape recorder had been switched off after the formal interviews , and were encouraged to talk informally by a young white member of the research team , who dissociated himself from the preceding interviews and " spent the duration of the recording sitting on the floor " ( Edwards 1986 : 74 ) . |
| 4 | In Argentina , serious negotiations with the state oil firm YPF were broken off after the 1930 coup . |
| 5 | However , mass meetings organized in Vietnam to condemn " counter-revolutionaries in Poland " were called off after the Polish government formally protested at Vietnam 's " interference " in Poland 's internal affairs . |
| 6 | The round was called off after the injured Andy Galvin was taken hospital . |
| 7 | A summit called for mid-October by Ivoirian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny , who supported Taylor , was called off after the heads of state of the five states contributing to ECOMOG — Nigeria , Ghana , Guinea , The Gambia and Sierra Leone — had declined to attend ; reports indicated a split along linguistic lines , with the minority anglophone states being the principal upholders of ECOMOG 's role . |
| 8 | It was called off after the principal , Dr David Kennedy sent a confidential letter to Mrs Falconer . |
| 9 | Blissett , 28 , was sent off after the incident in December 1991 . |
| 10 | Blissett , 28 , of Rickmansworth , Herts , was sent off after the clash in December 1991 . |